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Ecologically Sensitive Sites in Africa. Volume 1: Occidental and Central Africa
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) , World Bank, 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...
Protected Areas of the World: a review of national systems. Vol 4: Nearctic and Neotropical
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008)
The present work. Protected Areas of the world: A review of national systems, is the first attempt by WCMC to compile a world-wide survey of protected area systems. The book is organised into national (or occasionally ...
Protected areas: an effective tool to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2006)
Forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing and storing carbon in their biomass and soils. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) discussions on reducing emissions from deforestation and ...
Ecologically Sensitive Sites in Africa. Volume 5: Sahel
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) , World Bank, 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...
The costs and benefits of forest protected areas for local livelihoods: a review of the current literature
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2008)
Protected areas could play a significant role in the implementation of schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries, through either the strengthening of the existing protected ...
Ecologically Sensitive Sites in Africa. Volume 3: South-Central Africa and Indian Ocean
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) , World Bank, 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...
Ecologically sensitive sites in Africa. Volume 4: West Africa
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1993)
This publication is made in response to requests from task managers in the Africa region who wanted to know the location and properties of the ecologically sensitive sites in Africa to which they could refer while implementing ...
Coastal Sensitivity Overview of the Strait of Malacca. Compiled for International Maritime Organisation (IMO)
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1994)
This summary report of the coastal sensitivity of the Strait of Malacca has been compiled as background material for the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).
World trade in Crocodilian skins, 1999-2001. Prepared as part of the International Alligator and Crocodile Trade
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2003)
UNEP-WCMC has previously produced nine reports for the International Alligator and Crocodile Trade Study (IACTS) that have examined the international trade in crocodilian skins from 1980 to 2000. As in the previous reports, ...
State of the world's protected areas at the end of the twentieth century
(UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 1997)
Protected areas are widely held to be among the most effective means of conserving biological diversity in situ (McNeely and Miller, 1984